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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: som99 on August 29, 2013, 11:49:21 AM
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Hello all, a few days ago I found a quite big collection of CD's filled with software in a old local publisher warehouse, I spoke to the owner and declared interest in all old software and said and done I bought over 7000 CD's without knowing the lots contents.
Packed it all on a trailer and took it home, I still haven't looked at the contents much yet but the old owner said there should be some Amiga software there aswell :)
So today im spending the entire day unpacking and organizing this mess (I bet more then one day) in hopes to find some Amiga software :)
Hold your thumbs that I get lucky to find something of interest, if I find little or nothing of interest at least I got jewel cases for the rest of my life and someone here might come up with something fun to do with 7k cd's ;)
(http://oi43.tinypic.com/10him2b.jpg)
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Wow man, that's a true adventure :)
Fingers crossed !
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Great stuff dude,hopefully loads of cd32 cd`s :), I bet you feel like a kid at Xmas :)
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cool. interested to see what goodies you find
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I wish you'll find something good and not just premium bananas :-)
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7000 copies of a printer driver.
:D
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7000 copies of a printer driver.
:D
Or AOL CDs ! :)
Seriously, though, I hope there's some good stuff in there.
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Here's hoping you have a software goldmine.
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im not sure if this was really a good idea.
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I don't know if my wife would let me buy and store 7000 CD in the garage.
But, I hope you find something worthwhile and if you don't, then maybe you can recover your investment by selling empty CD cases.
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Hope you can find something useful and nice, for Amigas and not only (there's some good old software out there, for PCs also! :-D ).
Anyway a suggestion: if the majority of those CDs are useless (eg. AOL, Internet service provider CDs, etc.) you can easily use them for making a special room "painting", filling walls and ceiling with them!
Just an idea I got some years ago, when I got some tenths of old Windows CDs for free... but they were a few.
BY!
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Hello all, a few days ago I found a quite big collection of CD's filled with software in a old local publisher warehouse, I spoke to the owner and declared interest in all old software and said and done I bought over 7000 CD's without knowing the lots contents.
Packed it all on a trailer and took it home, I still haven't looked at the contents much yet but the old owner said there should be some Amiga software there aswell :)
So today im spending the entire day unpacking and organizing this mess (I bet more then one day) in hopes to find some Amiga software :)
Hold your thumbs that I get lucky to find something of interest, if I find little or nothing of interest at least I got jewel cases for the rest of my life and someone here might come up with something fun to do with 7k cd's ;)
(http://oi43.tinypic.com/10him2b.jpg)
how much ?? ..wow..just sit in front of a computer takes about 5 mins to quick check a cd ..so 5mins times 7000...a few late nights i think..
enjoy.
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Well if the CDs are in original packaging it doesn't take much to check contents.
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7000 copies of the "Mmmbop" single ;P
Seriously, looks like fun; here's hoping there's some gems in there!
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Whoa! Is it retail-packaged software, or just discs in jewel cases?
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Is that a Rover 600 in the background? Cool car, I’ve had two!!
P.S. I’m a lurker around here, proper long term ;)
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please post more images! :)
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Hope you can find something useful and nice, for Amigas and not only (there's some good old software out there, for PCs also! :-D ).
Anyway a suggestion: if the majority of those CDs are useless (eg. AOL, Internet service provider CDs, etc.) you can easily use them for making a special room "painting", filling walls and ceiling with them!
Just an idea I got some years ago, when I got some tenths of old Windows CDs for free... but they were a few.
BY!
Thanks mate, I was thinking something like that to, a wall pasted with CD's mirror side out, or maybe make a pixel Amiga logo if I get enough colors on the printed side :) But 7K CD's are many so need mroe ideas to figure out what to do with em :)
I don't know if my wife would let me buy and store 7000 CD in the garage.
But, I hope you find something worthwhile and if you don't, then maybe you can recover your investment by selling empty CD cases.
I was thinking of selling em also, but then I thought why not burn complete CD tosecs of all CD based consoles and archive em instead? :)
how much ?? ..wow..just sit in front of a computer takes about 5 mins to quick check a cd ..so 5mins times 7000...a few late nights i think..
enjoy.
No worries all of them have labels :)
Whoa! Is it retail-packaged software, or just discs in jewel cases?
I said unknown since I had not checked inside the boxes, 80% of the CD's are on a A4 cardboard piece in heat-shrinked plastic so I see em.
To everyone, I did around 500 wraped CD's today (A lot of CD's are the same in the same boxes so around 50 of the same CD so far), it's time consuming since im planning on saving the jewel cases of every CD if the contents are crap and as I wrote above 80% of em are shrink-wraped in plastic on cardboard and near 20 years old so the plastic is realy annoying to get of without cracking the cases, I cut 3 sides open and peel it of, it has gotten quite stuck over the years, so about 10-20 secs to open every single one :(
In the boxes of 500 CD's I did today I found not much of interest, a big bunch of OS/2 software (Which was quite OK), about 100 "Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons" expansion CD's in Swedish (not happy about em), tons of music software for windows 3.x and other stuff, not much I want but im keeping a few X of every different CD to add to my software collections.
I also checked in 5 boxes of non wraped CD's and found a lot of kid's games like learn math/ABC etc which I will make ISO's of for my digital collections.
Also in the non wraped boxes I found 100x of playstation 1 games, everyone was the same and the game was a third person point and click adventure game named "Ark of Time" not to fun but better then nothing :)
But I keep my hopes up to find more fun things, im not yet to unpleased but the time it takes to open em up are not fun.
Ill keep you all posted on what I find, I have no time for a few days now to open any more but ill write back next week when I start opening more, im planning on trying to get my wife to help so I can open the rest in a week :)
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Is that a Rover 600 in the background? Cool car, I’ve had two!!
P.S. I’m a lurker around here, proper long term ;)
please post more images! :)
Ops missed page two of the thread :)
@FigRoll, sorry it's a Volvo S40 that I am going to repair for a friend when I got time, it has boiled hard and ran a while without any water in the cooling system, so it is quite a renovation to get it going again :/
@ShK - Ill try to post more images tomorrow :)
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Cool :) What music software was there?
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I LOL'd at "100 "Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons" expansion CD's in Swedish". :D
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I wouldn't want to sound pessimistic but I didn't expect you would find anything useful out of this junk. It takes much more effort to find good Amiga CDs these days. But if you do I will be happy for you.
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Cool :) What music software was there?
Sadly it was bundle CD's with a bunch of em havent had time to check their names but they are mostly for Windows 3.x it looks like but when im done with this all I will try all interesting software :)
I LOL'd at "100 "Dungeon Keeper: The Deeper Dungeons" expansion CD's in Swedish". :D
Yeah, multilangual would have been better and even better the original game not an expansion :(
I wouldn't want to sound pessimistic but I didn't expect you would find anything useful out of this junk. It takes much more effort to find good Amiga CDs these days. But if you do I will be happy for you.
Im not counting on it either, just wishing :) whenever I come across things like this I can't pass out the chance because one day I will be lucky and any ways I payed less then what the jewel cases are worth.
Also I don't only collect Amiga stuff, I collect all software for all systems (but Amiga is my nr1) I can get my hands on to digitize em and preserve it for the future :)
If all fails I got enough cases to (as said before) print out a lot of CD's for CD based consoles :)
EDIT: Before going to bed I opened a new box of un-wraped CD's and found 100 expansion CD's for "Interstate '76" :( (well at least not in Swedish) ;)
Now im going to bed, night night
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Even though it's a gamble I dont think Id have been able to resists either :)
Good luck with opening the rest. Hope you find some good stuff :)
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I got a break-in in my car yesterday, lost quite a bit of stuff :( So been busy with insurance company etc, but ill try to post pics in a few days!
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A few years ago I'd have jumped on such a collection. Now I have to fight to stop people giving me old crap they "think" I'd be interested in. Oh, b00tdisk likes computers, he's a techy guy, maybe he wants this? ... and I get an AMD K6-2 laptop with 48mb RAM, no USB, long, long dead battery (completely dead) and Win98 (not SE) installed on an 800mb HD. Yeah, no, just keep walking with that. Or single-core P4 boards. "Oh I thought you could salvage the ram at least". Yeah let me think about what I can use DDR1 PC800 memory in. OK, got it: keychains. "Hey could you use a spare monitor" - no. Take your glass tube, pincushioned wobbly eyestraionovision brand 14" CRT and keep drivin'.
Software: "Hey I was at goodwill and they had computer games for $.50 each, I picked up a bunch for you!" and here come the piles of "Windows 95" games that are actually DOS games with a Win executable (that dumps you into DOS to run the game) or stuff on floppies or junk that's newer but just plain bad like "10000 puzzle games!" (5000 tetris clones, 2500 concentration variants and 2500 bejeweled rip-offs), old copies of encarta (helpfully informing me that travel in the Soviet Union may require special contact with Intourist), and on and on and on.
Ugh.
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A few years ago I'd have jumped on such a collection. Now I have to fight to stop people giving me old crap they "think" I'd be interested in. Oh, b00tdisk likes computers, he's a techy guy, maybe he wants this? ... and I get an AMD K6-2 laptop with 48mb RAM, no USB, long, long dead battery (completely dead) and Win98 (not SE) installed on an 800mb HD. Yeah, no, just keep walking with that. Or single-core P4 boards. "Oh I thought you could salvage the ram at least". Yeah let me think about what I can use DDR1 PC800 memory in. OK, got it: keychains. "Hey could you use a spare monitor" - no. Take your glass tube, pincushioned wobbly eyestraionovision brand 14" CRT and keep drivin'.
Hey! You've earned that rep somehow. Just sayin' is all ;)
Common denominator anyone? Hehehe